Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies

That women are under-represented in these fields is obvious, but why remains to be determined. This ambitious reader seeks answers from new research and theory and from new topics such as technologies relating to reproduction, agriculture, medicine and imaging. It also includes material related to recent controversies, such as reports on the relatively low number of women engineers and remarks by leading educators about women in science. The 24 essays here cover the education of women in science and their subsequent career paths, the role of stereotyping in women's scientific lives, the lingering "women's rationality" argument, the overwhelming influence of the masculine in science and engineering, how ideas about women and men shape theory and practice in science and technology, the possibilities for the coming generation of women (with the notion that a feminist perspective will be allowed into science and technology studies), and the idea that women can create knowledge and social policy along with change. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Mary Wyer is Assistant Dean of Interdisciplinary Studies at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.

Mary Barbercheck is Professor of Entomology at Pennsylvania State University.

Donna Cookmeyer is Associate Director of the Office of Licensing Ventures at Duke University.

Hatice Orun Ozturk is Teaching Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh

Marta L. Wayne is Associate Professor in the Department of Zoology at University of Florida, Gainesville.